Four full and long decades ago today, a somewhat unknown American heavyweight with a colourful and also ominous-sounding ...

The Grammy Award-winning musician and frequent collaborator of Spike Lee first branched out into the form in 2013 with “Champion,” about the life of boxer Emile Griffith, before debuting ...

Sixtime Grammy Awardwinning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021 ...

A coach who led Nevada to a national collegiate boxing title and a referee for numerous title bouts made the cut this year.

They arrived to find Akeem Forbes sitting on a chair near Emile Griffith Park. His girlfriend was nearby, as were several ...

They arrived to find Akeem Forbes sitting on a chair near Emile Griffith Park. His girlfriend was nearby, as were several bystanders who told officers that Forbes had assaulted the woman.

The event, which included a Tree Planting Cere­mony in honor of boxing legend Emile Griffith, a six-time boxing champion and Ring Maga­zine’s Fighter of the Year in 1963 and 1964, at­tracted visitors ...

The cast also includes Brian Major (Emile in 2022’s “Champion ... “The Anonymous Lover”), and Markel Reed (Young Emile Griffith in BLO’s 2022 “Champion”) as Jigger.

The German boxer went down in the first round. From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, Émile Griffith amassed five world champion belts. The boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands also made history in ...

3. Luis Rodriguez (107-13, 49 KOs; 1956-72): The master boxer gave Emile Griffith all he could handle in four fights. 4. Jose Napoles (79-7, 55 KOs; 1958-75): One of the most-dominating and complete ...

“I kill a man and most people forgive me. However, I love a man and many say that makes me an evil person.” Emile Griffith is one of the finest welterweights of all time. He won the 147-pound title on ...